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Afghanistan – A Confused Mess None of us Understand!

Posted on August 16, 2021

If you want to make yourself look a mug, try to be an expert on the geopolitics of Afghanistan. Unless you have months of spare time, you will never really understand it. The moment you think you have untangled the web; another complexity throws a spanner into the workings of your brain. What we do know, is America and its allies invaded it 20 years ago in revenge for the 9/11 attacks. The idea being to overthrow the Taliban and install ...

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The Good Law Project

Posted on August 5, 2021

Most people who are reading this post will be paying tax and national insurance or would have done, in the past.  Most of us pay our tax willingly enough. However, for high earners or those with businesses subject to corporation tax on top of income tax, it sometimes feels like a perpetual dishing out of money to the HMRC. Personally, I don’t pay huge amounts of tax because I don’t really work hard enough these days. However, as a ...

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The Great Pandemic Robbery

Posted on July 30, 2021

Through my business, I have been hearing various tales of pandemic fraud. These have generally come from sources close to contractors or businesses taking advantage of self-employed grants and government backed loans. Some of these tales have a whiff of bar stool bullshit about them, whilst others get me feeling agitated. A pandemic, you might hope, would be a collective effort, not a moment of opportunism where hastily put together rescue ...

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Daft Superstitions and Nice Footballers

Posted on July 10, 2021

I was speaking to a chap I know the other day and I mentioned our cricket club had been showing football on the TV if he wished to watch the final there. He told me that he would like to, but because he had watched previous games in the same the pub, he didn’t want to put a curse on the team by changing now. How bonkers is that? Can you imagine the scenario? Gareth Southgate is on the training ground. He is going through various systems ...

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Southgate Takes New England into Dreamland!

Posted on July 8, 2021

England had to face Euro 2020 adversity sooner or later. Getting through a whole tournament with their goal unscathed, was never going to happen. As it turns out, It was a blockbuster of a free kick and England were on the ropes. How would they respond? They certainly were rocking. Denmark looked likely to add another goal and put distance between the teams. However, rather than the wild panic us older fans are used to, England steadied ...

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